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Android Version plugin

Android Version plugin is a gradle plugin that helps managing version for Android projects. Plugin is especially helpful when you are dealing with complex build structure with multiple flavors and apk splits.

Flavor combinations

Beside configuring version based on flavors and build types you can also do that on combinations of them when using multiple variant dimensions. Combinations are calculated based on dimension order. For example if you have flavor1 and flavor2 that are in different dimensions you could do configuration for flavor1Flavor2 and also flavor1Flavor2Debug. If you define both second one will override first one if they have sem properties set.

Version code types

Based on your need you can specify version code tactics that you want to use. By default appVersion uses SimpleVersionCode tactics but this can easily be changed. Version code tactics can also be changed per variant/split. It can ether modify existing version code or specify completely new value.

SimpleVersionCode creates version code from version name parameters ( major, minor and build). By default each part will take up 2 digits but this is configurable through digits parameter.

IncreaseVersionCode Similar than SimpleVersionCode but you can specify digits per each part.

Output file name

With fileNamePattern property you can easily rename out apk files. Alongside static values you can specify template and plugin will generate the file name. Available properties are:

project: name of the project. In case of default Android Studio template that would be app.

variantName: full unique name of the variant including filters.

buildType: build type of the variant

flavorName: name of all flavors combined with capitalized latter

versionCode: version code of output file including apk splits

versionName: version name of output file including apk splits

flavors by dimension map of all flavors. (for example: flavors.dimension)

.apk suffix is automatically added at the end of file name.

Limitations

Due to the changes in Android Gradle plugin 3.0.0, Android version plugin 1.2.3 or above is required. Android version plugin is fully backwards compatible and new version will work with old version of Android gradle plugin.

There are some instant run limitations in versions before 2.3.0 of Android Gradle plugin due to bug. Due to this issue plugin will be disabled if it detects that it is running under instant run. That means that version name will be empty and version code will be 0. That is ok for tho most cases, if not you can still set version the old way in android.defaultConfig. When using Android Gradle Plugin 2.3.0 or newer everything works as espected.

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